Mall security growing more vigilant against terrorism

In a suburban mall outside Hartford, past the Abercrombie & Fitch and the cell phone kiosks, tucked away by the Barnes & Noble, a conference room full of shopping mall security guards are learning to spot suicide bombers.

They’re being taught blast patterns and behavior profiles, how a bomb is packaged and how a bomber is recruited.

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Al-Zawahiri Vows to Keep Fighting U.S.

Top Usama bin Laden lieutenant Ayman Al-Zawahiri vowed in a videotape shown Monday to continue fighting the United States until President Bush changes U.S. policies.

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Terror expert: Qaida WMD attack on US likely soon

An al-Qaida attack on the US with non-conventional weapons is virtually “inevitable,” and the organization is likely “tying up the knots” for such an attack, Yosef Bodansky, former director of the US Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

“All of the warnings we have today indicate that a major strike something more horrible than anything we’ve seen before is all but inevitable,” he said.

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US general calls for bolder action to stop Islamic extremists

A top US general called on Friday for bolder international action to stop the spread of Islamic extremism, suggesting curbs were needed to prevent the Internet and other media from being used by groups like Al Qaeda.

Why is it that people have the right to get on the Internet and spread this hatred and insanity without there being some curb, some law,said General John Abizaid, the chief of the US Central Command.

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CIA warns ‘dirty bomb’ within Al-Qaeda’s capabilities

The Al-Qaeda terror network is fully capable of building a radioactive “dirty bomb” targeting the United States and other Western nations and “has crude procedures” for producing chemical weapons, the CIA warned.

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Mexican Mob Burns Plainclothes Anti-Terrorism Agents Alive

A mob angry about recent child abductions cornered plainclothes federal agents taking photos of students at a school and burned the officers alive, mistaking the agents for kidnappers in the latest example of vigilante justice in a country beset by high crime.

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Security services foil 9/11 attack in UK

Britain’s security services thwarted a September 11-style attack on targets including Canary Wharf and Heathrow Airport, according to reports.

The plot is said to have involved pilots being trained to fly into target buildings including London’s famous financial centre and the world’s busiest airport.

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Biological attacks ‘next terror step’

Suicide bombings would give way to chemical and biological warfare in the next generation of terror attacks, a terrorist expert told an emergency medicine conference in Adelaide today.

“Terrorist groups were using chemical and biological agents in their training and it was just a matter of time before they used them for war,” Dr Rohan Gunaratna, the head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Singapore’s Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies, said.

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Agent says terrorists will hit again

The Phoenix FBI agent who warned that Osama bin Laden was using flight schools to train terrorists two months before the Sept. 11 attacks said Saturday that “they are going to try and hit us again.”

In his first interview since his now famous memo was written, Ken Williams told The Arizona Republic that Americans must reclaim the sense of unity and purpose that gripped the nation three years ago to thwart the next terrorist attack.

“We are in a war with people who really want to hurt us,” he said Saturday. “In my opinion, it is not over.”

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D.C.-bound passenger on no-fly list

US Customs officials have detained two passengers from an Air France flight bound for Dulles International Airport near Washington.
Transportation Security Administration officials say the plane was diverted to Bangor, Maine because they discovered that one of the passengers is on the U-S no-fly list. The plane eventually flew on to Dulles – arriving more than two hours late.

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At Least 10 Arrested In Anti-Terror Raids In Seattle

Police and federal agents with a terrorism task force have raided several locations and arrested at least 10 people in south Seattle.

They’re accused of taking part in a scheme to illegally bring people from the West African nation of Gambia into the United States.

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Iran may have atom bomb-bearing missile

U.S. intelligence officials are evaluating worrisome new information about an Iranian missile purportedly capable of carrying an atomic bomb.

The intelligence came from a “walk-in” source earlier this month and includes more than 1,000 pages purported to be Iranian drawings and technical documents, including a nuclear warhead design and modifications to enable Iranian ballistic missiles to deliver a nuclear bomb.

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Man Who Set Self Afire in 3 Terror Probes

An FBI informant who set himself on fire in front of the White House played a role in at least three terror investigations, court documents show.

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Iran said to be developing weapons-delivery systems

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said yesterday the United States has seen signs that Iran is developing technology to mount a nuclear warhead on a missile.

He spoke just hours after an Iranian opposition group charged that Tehran has a secret, military-run uranium-enrichment plant and has bought the blueprints for a nuclear bomb.

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